Frank Serpico’s Inside Battle Against Police Corruption
“Police, more often than not, have their own moral code, an “us against them” attitude enforced by a blue wall of silence, which can be even stronger than the omertà, the code of silence in the Mafia.” —Frank Serpico John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro have written a vitally important yo...
The Frindle Files
Random House Books for Young Readers will posthumously publish the final novel by beloved author Andrew Clements this fall with The Frindle Files, a sequel to his modern classic Frindle. Caldecott-winning illustrator Brian Selznick, who created the iconic Frindle cover art, will illustrate the seque...
Funny Story
What would you do if your fiancé dumped you for a woman he’s known his whole life? You move in with the only other person who understands your emotional distress, battered sense of self-worth, and rainy-day mood, of course. Even if that person is the ex-boyfriend of your ex’s new......
The Last Verse
The Last Verse is a tour de force second novel written by author Caroline Frost whose debut novel Shadows of Pecan Hollow (2022) set in East Texas won the Crook’s Corner Literary Prize and was nominated for additional awards. It is not hard to predict readers will welcome more from......
Swanna in Love
How could one resist a novel called Swanna In Love? As with Jennifer Belle’s previous books, Going Down, High Maintenance, Little Stalker and The Seven Year Bitch, her wit and unforgettable voice hook the reader at once. We are swept into fourteen-year-old Swanna Swain’s first-person narration i...
A Calamity of Souls
It took New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci more than a decade to write what may be his best, and most personal, story to date — and as someone who has sold more than 150 million copies of his novels worldwide in 45 languages over the span of his......
Studies at the School by the Sea
Studies at the School by the Sea (Avon) written by Jenny Colgan was originally published in the United Kingdom as Studies. It is the fourth novel in a captivating series set in a Cornish boarding school. As befits a Scottish writer of cozy novels and romantic comedies, this best-selling and......
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
On August 12, 2022, while speaking at a literary festival at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York, Salman Rushdie was stabbed 15 times. Now, blind in his right eye and still suffering the aftereffects of the attempted assassination, Rushdie has opened up about the experience in his new mem...
The Age of Magical Overthinking
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking. Utilizing the linguistic insights of her “witty and...